Malah Helman

She grew up in Munich and near Frankfurt/M.. After graduating from College she worked as a cook on the fields of a Kibutz in Israel, as an Au Pair in London and as a night porter in Paris.

In 1992 she began to study art history, Liberal Arts, Archaeology, Philosophy, Ethnology, Literature and Sociology at the universities of Frankfurt/M. and Heidelberg. She took courses at Cambridge University and at the École du Louvre. In 1997 she received her Master of Arts (A). While her studies she developed her own performances. In 1994 she also took courses in Physical Theatre at the Studio Teatrale Smascherati at Perugia (Italy) and at the Centre de Danse du Marais in Paris. In 1997 she enrolled at the University of Arts in Berlin (Faculty of Drama). She worked with teachers of the Drama Scholl “Ernst Busch” and withJurij Alschitz (The vertical of the role, Vasiliev), Robin Arthur (Forced Entertainment), Anton Adassinski (Derevo), Ulrich Barfod, (Human Voice, Roy Hart Theatre, Lorna Marshall (Connecting the Body, Yoshi Oida), Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening), Minako Seki (Butoh).

During this period she was a member of the student organization of the University of the Arts, where she belonged to the editorial staff of the student’s magazine.

Since 2001 she works as an actress for international and independent projects of theatre, film and for voice overs. In 2004 she had a scholarship for film acting in the U.S.. She develops her own projects and productions. She gives theatre courses for handicapped children. She is an activist. She is committed to improving the conditions of artists. She created an internet project for the independent artists of Berlin and published several articles. She speaks fluent English, Italian and French. She lives and works in Berlin.